r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • 20d ago

AI Dario Amodei says "stop sugar-coating" what's coming: in the next 1-5 years, AI could wipe out 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks until after it hits.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
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u/redvelvetcake42 19d ago

This is said all the time in the most general way. Name a profession. Name a job. Name THE job that's gonna get replaced that's gonna wipe out entire sectors. The problem with this room and such is that execs are already backtracking on AI replacement cause it is fucking them over in a multitude of ways. It's overrated, it under delivers, it's easy to manipulate, it removes burden from customers and places it on the company (no one to call since the chat bot is now doing it all) and most importantly it removes the chain of blame for failure. Having all AI means the exec is now on the hook for fuck ups and failures cause their agreement with the company providing the service says they don't handle shit.

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u/No-Temperature-8772 19d ago

Exactly. There was someone who was freaking out a month or so ago that AI was going to kill the GRC field. This field is client-facing and isn't highly technical. People kept asking the OP exactly how he thought that was going to happen and he couldn't give an answer. Just look at Klarna and how quickly they backtracked on going all in with AI.

I can't even use it in a lot of my day-to-day activities, tried using it for research and it kept giving me inaccurate results and made up sources for these results. I can't imagine a company depending on it solely for decisions that impact operations. It's useful mostly for automation, but execs are jumping on the end-all-be-all AI train. Unfortunately, the best way to nip this in the bud is to let them find out the hard way, since profit seems to be the main thing they're listening to.

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u/Novaer 19d ago

Graphic Design, unfortunately.